描述2018年是不准确的性行为不端指控在喜剧演员的新Netflix特别节目中，反对阿齐兹·安萨里（Aziz Ansari）作为房间里的大象。
它是房间。
“What else should we talk about?” he asks, after addressing the issue right up top, in a not-quite-mea-culpa that任何一直关注的人knew was coming. Ansari has plenty else to talk about, of course, but it all comes back to the fact that he spent 2018 in quasi-cancellation limbo and now feels weird about it.
现在是一部真实的肖像，是一位喜剧演员，努力与自己，他的名声以及社会在任何给定时间对或错的东西都掌握。
A quick recap of Ansari’s career: After an accelerated rise through New York’s stand-up circuit as an NYU student, the comedian and his cohorts (保罗·谢尔和罗布·休贝尔) landed the well-liked but short-lived sketch show人类巨人在中型的MTV上，以及一些小电影角色。他很快就以他的角色跃入网络情景喜剧公园和娱乐并通过一系列越来越大的站立巡回演出来利用它。到他在Netflix备受赞誉的情况下取得了创造性成功的高度创造力水平无主, he was playing multi-night stints at Madison Square Garden and authoring一本最畅销的书关于现代关系。
然后是宝贝。
Months after#MeToo运动开始淘汰掠食者like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, a sloppily rendered article on thatnow-shuttered websiteouted Aziz Ansari as a sex pest. Even the most damning read of the salacious story portrayed the comedian as an a-hole who didn’t know when to quit, rather than anything near the level of the kinds of men the #MeToo movement had been exposing. As I当时争论，这是一次完全独立的对话，但我们需要进行一次。不幸的是，对于安萨里（Ansari）来说，那次谈话的预兆恰好是一个在自己的工作中描绘自己是一个周到，倾斜女权主义者的人。即使他不应该因指控而失去自己的职业生涯，舆论似乎也暗示他应该至少有一点点超时的时间来尝试与他所描绘自己所做的一切。也许所有男人都需要。
Now here we are with现在, the comedian’s surprise comeback special following months of touring that have been heavily documented (and not just bythe cameraman). This special has been sold to us as a more stripped-down affair than it’s predecessors. Where once Ansari wore crisp, shiny suits, he appears in现在摇摆老式Metallica“ Ride the Lightning”衬衫和牛仔裤。This is the raw shit，包装传达。而且这并不完全不准确。这是一个被剥离的阿齐兹。这位以狂躁的表演而闻名的喜剧演员大部分时间都坐在凳子上，当事情变得严重时，他的声音经常使他的声音变成几乎狂热的声音。Spike Jonze执导了特别（因为Paul Thomas Anderson太忙了拍摄桑德勒的？），乔恩兹（Jonze）偏爱漫画的极其亲密的特写镜头，所以感觉好像我们正坐在他旁边。
What does our seatmate have to say? Well, his strongest material (in one man’s opinion) is about race. He has a lot on his mind about 2019-grade hypersensitivity, reserving most of his ire for white people who make a show of getting offended on other people’s behalf.
“Things don’t just become racist when white people figure it out,” he says at one point, to a justified applause break.
然而，他关于种族的一些材料散发出有关改变社会规范的嘲笑的笑话。当他从所有人允许布拉德利·库珀（Bradley Cooper）逃脱“ fagot博士！”的情况下，他如何奇怪的是，这是如何奇怪的。在The Hangover就在10年前，他如何看待吉姆The Officemight be seen as guilty of workplace misconduct today, there’s clearly a meta-message here. It feels like a manipulative attempt to contextualize his own misconduct accusation, which might not have seemed so bad if it came up 10 years ago.
“You can’t judge everything by 2019 standards,” he says a moment later, referring to some gross moves by the pervy-but-mostly-lovable character he himself played on公园和娱乐。Now the message is no longer meta. He’s directly-indirectly asking us not to judge him as harshly as we might. But it’s odd to sorta kinda be told not to look at his recent baggage through a 2019 lens during a special called现在。
这是喜剧演员与整个这里的观众之间的紧张关系的一个例子。Ansari can scarcely hide his contempt for some of the audience, like myself, who are watching his special with an evaluative 2019 eye, along with anyone who isn’t famous and therefore doesn’t have to watch their every move and utterance to ensure it doesn’t retroactively offend one day.
不过，矛盾的是，操纵和紧张感仅增加了一个喜剧演员试图导航他的新现实的整体诚实肖像。感觉就像我们看到了一个整个人 - 他希望我们看到的东西，以及他看不到什么。他如何搬家以及他还不能。他在挣扎，并且在一个短暂的空间中，但他似乎对错误和正确的事物（现在和永远的事物）似乎是合理的感兴趣，即使他在途中进行了一两个错误的转弯。
特别的名称是现在，最终，安萨里（Ansari）包括一些材料。但是最终，每当他或其他任何人回头看这个特别的时，他们都会不可避免地记得现在as the moment immediately Just After. It’s a transitional special, a snapshot of a very specific time, right before whatever’s next. And there’s nothing wrong with that.